Improved Plot Selector Makes Graphic Data Exploration Easier

  Ignore Selected Arguments on Function Calls

  Internal Packages Make Reserved Functions Easy to Identify

  Use of lasterror, lasterr, rethrow(errStruct) Not Recommended

  Use of maxNumCompThreads No Longer Recommended

  Excel Worksheet Selection in the Import Wizard

  Motion JPEG 2000 Files Supported by mmreader

  Minimum Sample Rate for audioplayer

  Documentation Changes: File I/O and Data Import and Export

  Object Array Property Indexing

  Equality of Objects Using isequal Now Ignores Numeric Class

  Class Defining Private/Abstract Property Now Errors

  Subclasses of Built-in Classes and numel

  Array Expansion with Indexed Assignment

  New Tiff Object Enables Writing of Tiled Data and Broader Metadata Support

  Ambiguity Error Now Reported

  Enhanced Plot Selector Simplifies Data Display

  Certain Print Options and Devices Now Warn When Used

  The view Function No Longer Supports 4-by-4 Transformation Matrices as Input

  Expanded Documentation on Techniques for Programmatic GUI Design

  Previous Change to How UI Components Set the Figure SelectionType Property

  Changes to Compiler Support

  Run-Time Libraries Required for Applications Built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Compiler

  Changes to Building MEX-Files

  New Features for Interface to Microsoft .NET Framework

  Upgrade to Computational Geometry

  Incomplete Inverse Gamma Function gammaincinv and Incomplete Inverse Beta Function betaincinv

  Krylov Subspace Methods bicgstabl and tfqmr

  New Function quad2d

  Changes To conv

  Changes To conv2 and convn

  nextpow2 Changing to Element-By-Element Calculation in a Future Release

  Function finite Being Removed

  New Multithreading Capability in MATLAB Functions

  64-bit Support in LAPACK and BLAS

  Upgrade to ACML 4.1.0

  Timer Objects Saved in New Format

  mmreader Supports Linux Platforms

  Support of Microsoft Excel 2007 File Formats

  Anonymous Functions Support str2func

  size and range Implemented for validateattributes

  isempty Supported for Map Objects

  Bug Fix for Misinterpreted Variables

  MATLAB Upgrades Support for HDF5 to Version 1.8.1

  Indirect Calls to Superclass Constructors Now Errors

  GUIDE Help Menu Enhanced

  Expanded Platform Support Added for MATLAB Serial Port

  Changes To Compiler Support

  Do Not Use mxFree to Destroy mxArrays

  Cannot Build MEX-Files Using MATLAB Version 5 API

  MEX-Files Calling BLAS or LAPACK Functions Must Be Updated On 64-Bit Platforms

  Object .o Files Saved on Macintosh Systems for Debugging

  Run-Time Libraries Required for Applications Built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Compiler

  New Features for Shared Library Interface

  New Java Thread Safety Functions

  Improved Robustness of Web Services Functions

  Upgrade to Random Number Generator

  Multipoint Boundary-Value Problems with bvp5c

  Upgrades to lsqnonneg

  Functions and Properties Being Removed

  Upgrade to Intel Math Kernel Libraries

  Tic and Toc Support Multiple Consecutive Timings

  New Options for MException getReport

  what Function Returns Package Information

  addtodate Accepts Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Milliseconds

  Querying Options Added to pause

  File Selection Restriction in Import Wizard

  Function Handle Array Warning Is Now An Error

  Two Types of issorted Warnings Are Now Errors

  Possible Conflict with New Keyword: SPMD

  Do Not Create MEX-Files with DLL File Extensions

  isequal Is Now Called Explicitly for Contained Objects

  Indexed Assignment with Objects of the Form p(:) = o Now Consistent with MATLAB Language

  fopen No Longer Supports VAXD, VAXG, and Cray Machine Formats

  Handle Graphics Not Supported Under -nojvm Startup Option

  Handle Graphics Not Supported Under -nojvm Startup Option

  New Menu Options to Hide or Show GUIDE Toolbar and Status Bar

  GUIDE Status Bar Now Shows Tag Property of Selected Object

  Four New Major GUI Examples

  MEX-Files Must Be Recompiled When -largeArrayDims Becomes Default MEX Option

  New Compiler Support

  Compiler Support to Be Phased Out

  Use mxDestroyArray to Release Memory for mxArray

  New Function Displays Information about MEX Compiler Configurations

  New Functions to Catch Errors in MEX-Files Replace mexSetTrapFlag

  "Duplicate dylib" Warning on Macintosh Systems

  Microsoft Visual Studio "X64 Compilers and Tools" Required for 64-bit Systems

  Run-Time Libraries Required for Applications Built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Compiler

  Do Not Use get or set Function to Manage Properties of Java Objects

  COM Objects Might Display Different Number of Supported Events

  Upgrade to BLAS Libraries

  Upgrade to LAPACK Library

  More Multithreaded Support For Elementwise Math Functions With Warnings

  New Algorithms for ldl, logm, and funm Functions

  Functions and Properties Being Removed

  Enhancements to Object-Oriented Programming Capabilities

  Packages for Classes and Functions

  Clear Variables with Exceptions

  Information on the State of Memory

  Define Your Own Function Cleanup Tasks

  New Functions

  Extended JIT Support

  Enhancements to Image Information and Writing Functions

  Compression of -v7.3 MAT-Files

  Changes to Programming Documentation

  "v6" Plotting Option Update - Affected Functions

  Event Data Input to GUIDE Callbacks

  uigetfile and uiputfile Support of '.', '..', and '/'

  hidegui Function Being Obsoleted

  Changes to How uicontrols Set Figure SelectionType

  Changes to Compiler Support

  New Version of Perl on Windows Platforms

  Rebuild MEX-Files Created on Linux Platforms

  Use mxDestroyArray to Release Memory for mxArray

  Do Not Use get or set Function to Manage Properties of Java Objects

  New mxArray Functions for Use with MATLAB Class Objects

  mex.bat File Removed from matlabroot\bin\$ARCH

  Run-time Libraries Required for Applications Built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Compiler

  Environment Variables Required with Intel Visual Fortran 9.0

  -largeArrayDims Option to MEX Will Become Default

  Changes to Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) Documentation

  New Functions

  finite Function Deprecated

  dmperm Function Gives Coarse Decomposition

  ldl Function Supports Real Sparse Symmetric Matrices

  Upgrade to LAPACK Library

  Upgrade to BLAS Libraries

  Library for LAPACK and BLAS Symbols Separated

  Colon Operations on Characters Return Character Type Data

  Matrix Generating Functions No Longer Accept Complex Inputs

  Documentation for Multiprocessing in MATLAB

  Setting Number of Threads Programmatically

  New Internal Format for P-code

  New Split String Functionality in regexp

  Changes Related to Error Handling

  Results From tempname Are More Unique

  MATLAB Includes New Input Argument Validation Functions

  Windows Current Working Directory Corrected

  New Multimedia Functionality

  Compressed AVI Video Files in Windows Vista and Windows XP x64

  mmfileinfo Reads Files on MATLAB Path

  Changes to imread Support of TIFF Format

  Removal of freeserial Function

  New Options for Displaying Groups of Lines in Legends

  Drawnow Update Option Now Updates Uicontrols Only

  Annotation Textboxes Can Automatically Resize to Fit their Contents

  Property Inspector Now Has Context-Sensitive Help

  The "v6" Option for Creating Plot Objects is Obsolete

  Coordinate Readouts in Layout Editor

  Documentation for Making GUIDE GUIs Interact

  Functions Being Removed

  Fortran MEX-Files Will Require mwSize and mwIndex

  Changes to the MATLAB Locale Setting

  Changes to MEX Error-Handling Functions mexErrMsgTxt and mexErrMsgIdAndTxt

  Rebuild MEX-Files Created with MATLAB Versions Earlier Than V7 (R14)

  Changes to Compiler Support

  Changes to Applications Built with Borland 5.5 or 5.6 C Compilers

  Environment Variable Required for mex with Microsoft Platform SDK Compiler

  Environment Variables Required for mex with Intel Visual Fortran 9.0

  Changes to Handling ActiveX Methods

  Changes to Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) Documentation

  New Functions

  More Efficient Matrix Multiplication for Sparse Matrices

  rand Function Uses the Mersenne Twister Algorithm as Default

  Upgrade to BLAS Libraries

  mode of Empty Array Now Returns NaN

  Change to Syntax for Setting BLAS Library Version on Linux

  Parse Inputs with Consistently Implemented Mechanism

  textscan Returns Like Values in Same Cell Array

  Numbered Arguments for Formatted String Functions

  The dir Function Returns Additional datenum Field

  Using whos -file on Objects with Overloaded size or class Methods

  mat2str Returns Correct Output for Strings

  Warning Generated by try-catch

  save -regexp Saves to Correct Filename

  Functions Not Callable If in Directory Under Class Directory

  Improved Performance on Certain Platforms and Operations

  Technique to Conserve Memory on Windows Vista

  ispuma Function Deprecated

  Movies No Longer Play During Loading

  Ghostscript Printing Software Upgraded

  Property Inspector Now Categorizes Graphic Object Properties

  Figure WindowScrollWheelFcn Property Programs Scrollwheel Events

  Figure KeyReleaseFcn Property Programs Key Release Events

  GUIDE M-File-Defined handles Structure Fields No Longer Become Permanent

  UNIX: File Dialog 'Location' Property Is Obsolete

  Functions Becoming Obsolete

  MEX-Files Built in MATLAB R11 or Earlier Must Be Rebuilt

  Changes to Compiler Support

  New COM Features

  Changes to Handling Microsoft ActiveX Methods

  New Functions

  max and min Now Use Magnitudes and Phase Angle for Complex Input

  Additional Output from lu

  Upper and Lower Factors for chol and ldl

  Permutation Vectors with lu, luinc, ldl

  Two-Element Threshold for lu, spparms

  Lower Triangular Factors from symbfact

  Support for New Versions of AMD, COLAMD, CHOLMOD, UMFPACK

  Sparse Arrays on 64-Bit Systems

  FFTW Upgraded to Version 3.1.1 in MATLAB

  Future Obsolete Functions

  Obsolete Functions

  max and min No Longer Return Warning Messages for Inputs with Different Data Types

  New Options for Working with Time Series Objects

  Import Wizard Generates Import M-Code

  New Dynamic Regular Expression Syntax

  New Reserved MATLAB Keywords

  Enhancements to Display Generated by whos

  unique Function Returns First and Last Indices

  save Compression and Unicode Options Removed

  Warning Generated by try-catch

  Case-Sensitivity Warning Removed

  fprintf(0,...) Now Throws an Error

  Assigning Nonscalar Structure Array Fields to a Single Variable

  Comma Separators Not Required in Function Declaration

  Improved Performance on Certain Platforms and Operations

  Version 6 Property Editor Has Been Removed

  New Desktop Printing GUI

  Zoom Mode Now Supports Mouse Scroll Wheel

  Data Cursor Text Can Now Be Programmatically Modified

  Customizing Zoom, Pan, and Rotate3D Data Explore Modes

  Improvements to MATLAB Graphics Documentation

  Colored Buttons on Windows XP

  Documentation Enhancement

  Sparse Arrays on 64-bit Systems

  New MAT-File Format Based on HDF5

  -V5 Option to MEX to Be Removed

  Location of mex.bat File Changed

  Changes to Compiler Support

  Actxcontrol Command Now Validates ProgID

  New Library CHOLMOD for Sparse Cholesky Factorization

  New Solver for State-Dependent DDEs

  Upgrade to BLAS Libraries

  New Function for Integer Division

  New Input to gallery Function

  Improved Algorithm for expm

  More Efficient condest for Sparse Matrices

  accumarray Accepts Cell Vector Input

  Reference Pages for timeseries and tscollection Objects

  Text Files Can Be Imported In Time Series Tools

  Linux 64 Platform Fully Enabled for Time Series Tools

  Using avifile and movie2avi on Windows XP 64

  Regular Expressions

  Setting Environment Variables

  issorted Support for Cell Arrays

  XLS Functions Support More Formats

  Archiving Functions Accept Files on Path and ~/

  sendmail No Longer Requires ASCII Messages

  MATLAB Warns on Invalid Input to str2func

  Changes to Character Encoding in File I/O

  Inspector Has New Look

  Major Documentation Revision

  MEX-Files in MATLAB for Microsoft Windows x64

  New Microsoft and Intel Compilers Supported

  MWPOINTER Macro for Platform-Independent Fortran Code

  Compaq Visual Fortran Engine and MAT Options File Renamed

  Options Files Removed for Unsupported Compilers

  Obsolete Functions No Longer Documented

  Support for Licensed ActiveX Controls

  Support for VT_Date Type

  Dynamic Linking of External Libraries

  New Functions

  Modified Functions

  Changes to accumarray

  Imposing Nonnegativity Constraints on Computed ODE Solution

  Mersenne Twister Support in rand

  svd Returns Economy Decomposition

  New Location for LAPACK Libraries

  Documentation on Data Analysis

  Time-Series Analysis

  Modified Functions

  Evaluation Functions for Arrays, Structures, Cells

  Using who and whos with Nested Functions

  Date and Time Functions Support Milliseconds

  Stack Trace Provided for lasterror

  isfield Function Supports Cell Arrays; Results Might Differ from Previous Version

  Support for Reading EXIF Data from Image Files

  Performance Improvements to the MATLAB JIT/Accelerator on Macintosh

  Specifying fread Precision as Number of Bits

  Seconds Field Now Truncated; Results Might Differ

  Built-in Functions No Longer Use .bi; Impacts Output of which Function

  New Warning About Potential Naming Conflict

  Documentation for Data Analysis Reorganized

  New COM Programmatic Identifier

  New File Extension for MEX-Files on Windows Systems

  New Preferences Directory and MEX Options

  Compiler Support

  Import Libraries Moved

  MEX Perl Script Moved

  Linking to System Libraries

  COM Automation Server Now Displays Figure

  New Vendor BLAS Used for Linear Algebra in MATLAB

  max and min on Complex Integers Not Supported

  textscan Enhancements

  xlsread Enhancements

  xlsread Imported Date Format Changes

  format Options Added

  Nonscalar Arrays of Function Handles to Become Invalid

  Assigning Nonstructure Variables As Structures Displays Warning

  Function Declaration Compatibililty with Pre-R14 M-Files

  Compatibility Considerations

  New Function - ordeig

  More Functions Accept Single-Precision Data Inputs

  New Vendor BLAS Used for Linear Algebra in MATLAB

  Overriding the Default BLAS Library on Sun/Solaris Systems

  FDLIBM Version Upgraded

  Different Results When Solving Singular Linear Systems on Intel Systems; Inconsistent NaN Propagation

  funm Returns Status Information; New Output Might Result In Error

  datevec Support of Empty String Argument

  depfun Function Supports New Options

  ftell Returning Invalid Position in Rare Cases

  fwrite Saves uint64 and int64 Types

  mat2str Enhanced to Work with Non-double Types

  nargin, nargout Operate on Function Handles

  regexprep Now Supports Character Representations in Replacement String

  Logical OR Operator | in regexp Expressions Might Yield Different Results from Previous Version

  Multiple Declarations of Persistent Variables No Longer Supported

  Function Declaration Compatibililty with Pre-R14 M-Files

  Compatibility Considerations

  Panels, Button Groups, and ActiveX Components

  Comments Now Optional for Newly Generated Callback Functions

  Windows XP Display of Push and Toggle Buttons

  Registering Events for COM Servers and Controls

  Expanded Support for Web Services (SOAP and WSDL)

  Specifying the Search Path for Sun Java Native Method DLLs

  MATLAB DDE Server Is Now Disabled By Default

  Clearing MEX-Functions

  New and Obsolete Functions

  Nondouble Math

  Matrices and Elementary Math

  Linear Algebra

  Nonlinear Methods

  Trigonometry, Geometry

  Differential Equations

  FFT

  Optimization

  Special Functions

  Other

  New Functions

  Obsolete Functions

  New Nondouble Mathematics Features

  Nondouble Arithmetic

  New Integer Functions - intmax and intmin

  New Warnings for Integer Arithmetic

  Warning on Concatenating Different Integer Classes

  Integer Data Type Functions Now Round Instead of Truncate

  Changes to Behavior of Concatenation

  Class Input for realmax and realmin

  Class Input for ones, zeros, and eye

  Class and Size Inputs for Inf and NaN

  New Class and Data Inputs for eps

  New Class Inputs for sum

  complex Now Accepts Inputs of Different Data Types

  Bit Functions Now Work on Unsigned Integers

  New Function accumarray for Constructing Arrays with Accumulation

  Enhanced sort Capabilities and Performance

  New Functions for Numerical Data Types

  max and min Now Have Restrictions on Inputs of Different Data Types

  Mathematic Operations on Logical Values

  New Function linsolve for Solving Systems of Linear Equations

  New Output for polyeig

  Enhancements to lscov

  New Form for Generalized Hessian

  New Function quadv Integrates Complex, Array-Valued Functions

  New Trigonometric Functions For Angles in Degrees

  Matrix, Trigonometric, and Other Math Functions No Longer Accept Inputs of Type char

  New Warnings for Complex Inputs to atan2, log2, and pow2

  Enhanced Functions for Computational Geometry

  New Support for Interpolation Functions

  New and Enhanced Functions for Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs)

  Enhancements to Discrete Fourier Transform Functions

  FFT Functions Applied to Integer Data Types are Becoming Obsolete

  New Output Function for Optimization Functions

  New Input Argument for Incomplete Gamma Function

  Overriding the Default BLAS Library on Intel/Windows Systems

  New Names for Demos expm1, expm2, and expm3

  Function Dispatching

  Functions and Scripts

  Changes to Specific Functions

  Specific Data Types

  Characters and Strings

  Dates and Times

  File I/O

  Error Handling

  Other Topics

  MATLAB Stores Character Data As Unicode; Making Release 14 MAT-files Readable in Earlier Versions

  MAT-Files Generated By Release 14 Beta2 Must Be Reformatted

  Unicode-Based Character Classification

  Character Rendering on Linux

  Additional Bytes Reserved in MAT-File Header; Do Not Write To Reserved Space

  Compressed Data Support in MAT-Files

  Saving Structures with the save Function

  Case-Sensitivity in Function and Directory Names; Can Affect Which Function MATLAB Selects

  Differences Between Built-Ins and M-Functions Removed; Can Affect Which Function MATLAB Selects

  Warning on Naming Conflict

  Change to How evalin Evaluates Dispatch Context

  Summary of New Functions

  New Function Type - Anonymous Functions

  New Function Type - Nested Functions

  Calling Private Functions From Scripts

  New Calling Syntax for Function Handles; Replace eval With New Syntax

  Arrays of Function Handles

  Calling nargin and nargout with Built-In Functions

  Comma Separators Not Required in Function Declaration

  getfield and setfield Not To Be Deprecated

  isglobal Function To Be Discontinued

  Recycle to Protect Files from Unwanted Deletion

  bin2dec Ignores Space Characters

  dbstop crashes Are Now Resolved

  Bit Functions on Unsigned Integers

  inmem Returns Path Information

  New Features for Nondouble Data Types

  Mathematic Operations on Logical Values

  Accessing Cell and Structure Arrays Without deal

  New Features in Regular Expression Support

  Functions that Use Regular Expressions

  Regular Expressions Accept String Vector; No Longer Support Character Matrix Input

  Cell Array Support for String Functions

  Additional Class Output From mat2str

  String Properties

  Using strtok on Cell Arrays of Strings

  Colon Operator on char Now Returns a char

  datestr Returns Date In Localized Format

  Form and Locale for weekday

  Freestyle Date String Format

  Reading Date Values with xlsread; Conversion No Longer Necessary

  Comprehensive Function for Reading Text Files

  New Inputs and Outputs to xlsread

  New Inputs and Syntax for dlmwrite

  Change in Output from xlsfinfo

  Importing Complex Arrays

  Using imread to Import Subsets of TIFF Images

  Getting Information about Multimedia Files

  All-Platform Audio Recording and Playback

  FTP File Operations

  Web Services (SOAP)

  64-Bit File Handling on MacIntosh

  Changes to Error Message Format

  nargchk Has a New Format for Error Messages

  Enabling and Disabling Warning Messages

  Catching Ctrl+C in try-catch Statements

  MATLAB Performance Acceleration

  Assignment Error Removed

  "Using MATLAB" Documentation Is Now Three Books

  Code Generation

  Data Exploration Tools

  Annotation Features

  Plot Objects

  Group Objects

  Linking Graphics Object Properties

  New Behavior for Hold Command

  Enhancements to findobj

  New Ancestor Function Returns Object's Ancestry

  New Axes Properties

  New Figure Properties

  New Root Object Property

  New Dialog for Exporting Figures

  Compatibility Considerations

  ActiveX Controls

  New Toolbar Component

  Menu Editor Enhancements

  Layout Resize Behavior

  Key Press Detection

  Edit Text Box Scroll Bar

  Setting Uicontrol Focus

  Multiple Selection in uigetfile

  Program Suspension Time-Out

  Standard Dialog Box Push Buttons

  New Syntax for uigetfile and uiputfile

  Frames Not Available in GUIDE Layout Editor

  Microsoft ActiveX and COM Interface

  MATLAB Interface to Sun Java Programming Language

  General Features